Question

I have successfully created a custom taxonomy in WordPress, and I created a page that lists all of the posts under a specified taxonomy, with a file named taxonomy.php. It works, but some of the php isn’t printing any text. The page seems to churn out some php errors with error reporting turned on:

Notice: Undefined variable: term_name in WEBSITE_ROOT/themes/starkers/taxonomy.php on line 24

The variable is $term_name. Here is the code I have in my taxonomy.php page. I followed this tutorial. I thought I followed the tutorial pretty well.

<?php

get_header(); ?>

<?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); ?>

            <h1><?php
                printf( __( 'Posts classified under: %s', 'starkers' ), '<span>' . $term_name . '</span>' );

            ?></h1>

            <?php
                $category_description = category_description();
                if ( ! empty( $category_description ) )
                    echo '' . $category_description . '';

            get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' );
            ?>


<?php get_footer(); ?>

Basically, it’s not printing the taxonomy name after “Posts classified under:”

I tried fiddling around with the code, but no luck. If it helps, here is the code I used for functions.php to registering the taxonomy:

add_action( 'init', 'build_taxonomies', 0 );

function build_taxonomies() {
register_taxonomy(
    'quotees',
    'post',
    array(
        'hierarchical' => false,
        'label' => 'quotees',
        'query_var' => true,
        'public' => true,
        'rewrite' => true
    )
);
}

Answer 1

If you look in the comments, apparently $term_name should be $term->name. In fact, most of the $term_blahs should be $term->blah.